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title: Some shops raise a price for a short time so that a later "sale" loo… — Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats" · tree and pragmatics
description: Some shops raise a price for a short time so that a later "sale" looks bigger; compare with the usual price and with other shops. Who acts: shops, later sale. A sentence of the lesson «Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats"» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats", sentence 11

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Some shops raise a price for a short time so that a later "sale" looks bigger; compare with the usual price and with other shops.

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**Who acts:** shops, later sale · **What happens:** raise, look, compare · **To what, where:** price

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats"» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shops, later sale), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:176-adverts-and-8-out-of-10-cats.lesson:11
# text = Some shops raise a price for a short time so that a later "sale" looks bigger; compare with the usual price and with other shops.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 176-adverts-and-8-out-of-10-cats.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	raise	raise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	17	mark	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	later	late	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	sale	sale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
18	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	xcomp	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
20	compare	compare	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** | present | some shops | a price |  |  | time |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | present | a later sale |  |  |  |  | big *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **compare** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with the usual price and other shops | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with price=Co-Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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